Re: AW: tlug: a Netscape puzzle

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 TBaetzle@example.com wrote:

> > Jim Schweizer wrote:
> > I was just spending a little leisure time in
> > alt.destroy.microsoft when I came across a post from Jamie
> > Zawinski (the guy that wrote a lot of the original Mosaic and
> > Netscape code (I think)). Without hesitation I clicked on the
> > link to his homepage and was surprised when the meteor shower
> > (in the upper right corner) turned into a compass....
> > 
> :-) I was pretty amazed the first time I saw it, too. From my
> bookmarks, here are some sites that tell more about this and
> other netscape hacks. 

Apparently the trick is that that ANIM line is fake - the browser just
matches 'netscape.com' and 'jwz' in the url - if they're both there, it
does the compass.

> 
> http://www.yikes.com/netscape/
> http://wwwcn.cern.ch/~rigaut/about.html
> http://www.mods.com/hackersguide/mozenter.html
> http://www.eeggs.com/
> 
> HTH,
> Thomas
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Next TLUG Nomikai: 11 March Wed 1998 Tengu TokyoEkiMae 19:30
Chuo-ku, Kyobashi 1-1-6, EchiZenYa Bld. B1/B2 03-3275-3691
Next TLUG Meeting: 11 April 1998 Saturday, Tokyo Station
Featuring Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n talking on source code
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